Wagon-pole



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' WAGONBULE. y No. v1291.131.' Patented Jan. 1, 1884.

UNITEDl STATES PATENT OFFICE ALEXANDER H. BEACH AND RALPH H. BEACH, OFFLINT, MICHIGAN.

WAGON-POLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,131, dated January1, 1884.

Application filed April 19, 1883. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

, Be it known that we, ALEXANDER H. BEACH and RALPHH. BEACH, of Flint,in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan, haveinvented new anduseful Improvements in Wagon- Poles; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which forni a part of thisspecification.

The invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in theconstruction of wagonpoles, by means of which a pole of greater istrength and lighter in weight is obtained than the poles which areordinarily made.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the same, as morefully hereinafter described.

` Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved pole detached. Fig. 2is a crosssection.

In the accompanying drawings our improved pole is shown constructed asfollows: Sheet metal, (preferably steel plates) of a suitable length forthe pole, are employed, and bent by stamping-works or otherwise into athree-sided box of unequal dimensions at different portions of itslength. This box A, which forms the top and sides of the iinishedtongue, tapers from its smallest cross-section at the front end, whereit is designed to be engaged with the neck-yoke or other holdbackappliances, and increases in size upon a true taper to the point a,being the point where ordinarily the hammer is inserted, and thencetapering gradually to its rear end. The space Within the boX is iilledwith light wood backing B, which may be secured there in any suitable orknown way; or the iron-work may be shrunk on the' wood by heating andcooling. 4o

It will be readily seen that this tongue may be'as readily adapted toall the various running-gears which are employed in wagon-building ascan the ordinary tongue, while its strength is much greater, its weightmuch less, 45 and its durability very much increased.

We are aware of Patent No. 17 3,025, of 1876, in which ahollow metallictongue having a longitudinal flange isset forth, and such constructionis not sought to be covered in this 5o application.

What we claim as our invention is- As a new article of manufacture, awagontongue formed of a continuous strip of sheet metal, bent intorectangular form in cross-sec- 55 tion to give closed sides and top withoper bottom, filled in with a wooden backing, and having longitudinaltaper in opposite directions from the point a, substantially asdescribed.

ALEXANDER H. BEACH. RALPH H. BEACH.

Witnesses: JNO. S. YoUNGs, A. J. ADAMs.

